mouthing
Example Sentences
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I am reminded of these words of Herman Melville: “A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
But that did little to dampen her spirits as she danced atop her pink pony-themed Pride float, swaying and mouthing the lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Bailey also requested that Granberry be ordered to stop using his social media platforms to continue "bad mouthing me to his several millions of fans".
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
"Oh no," he added, before silently mouthing the word into the microphone.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2024
When a reader is forced to work through one stale idiom after another, she stops converting the language into mental images and slips back into just mouthing the words.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
